Pineal
11-10-11, 04:45 AM
Skeptics of what get classed as Conspiracy theories, often believe, for some reason, that any conspiracy would come out in the open. I think this idea is impossible to falsify, and so of questionable value, but also that there a good reasons to be skeptical of it.
In the last decade the Catholic church has been found not only to be home to many, many child abusers, but also to have covered up this fact and even worse exposed children to known abusers.
Unless you really think that only late 20th Century priests had this predilection and also the Church itself only recently started to act in a self-protective irresponsible fashion, the obvious conclusion is that this kind of abuse and terrible organizational reaction has been the rule for a long time. Nevertheless these cases were seen as isolated.
In the past the church has managed to cover up the systematic nature of the problem and their own self behavior.
Why were they able to do this? Because society was not ready to confront the issue. IOW the Church had external allies even in victims, their families and certainly in the media and government.
But after feminism - which attacked these kinds of systematic abuse - the disovery and understanding of PTSD and its symptoms - in the psychological world there was an industry cognitive shift after the Vietnam veterans began coming home from that war - society was more ready to take seriously the accusations of victims and also to challenge the systematic abuses of the Church itself.
Before society was ready to face this - had both the emotional maturity AND the cognitive foundation - the information could not come out and be received. Only a few knew and their knowledge was marginalized.
Information comes out, it is what happens once these individual witnesses and experts come forward that is critical. If they are marginalized, because society as a whole is not ready to face whatever the conspiracy is, that conspiracy will seem unlikely to all the armchair experts who really know nothing at all.
In the last decade the Catholic church has been found not only to be home to many, many child abusers, but also to have covered up this fact and even worse exposed children to known abusers.
Unless you really think that only late 20th Century priests had this predilection and also the Church itself only recently started to act in a self-protective irresponsible fashion, the obvious conclusion is that this kind of abuse and terrible organizational reaction has been the rule for a long time. Nevertheless these cases were seen as isolated.
In the past the church has managed to cover up the systematic nature of the problem and their own self behavior.
Why were they able to do this? Because society was not ready to confront the issue. IOW the Church had external allies even in victims, their families and certainly in the media and government.
But after feminism - which attacked these kinds of systematic abuse - the disovery and understanding of PTSD and its symptoms - in the psychological world there was an industry cognitive shift after the Vietnam veterans began coming home from that war - society was more ready to take seriously the accusations of victims and also to challenge the systematic abuses of the Church itself.
Before society was ready to face this - had both the emotional maturity AND the cognitive foundation - the information could not come out and be received. Only a few knew and their knowledge was marginalized.
Information comes out, it is what happens once these individual witnesses and experts come forward that is critical. If they are marginalized, because society as a whole is not ready to face whatever the conspiracy is, that conspiracy will seem unlikely to all the armchair experts who really know nothing at all.